Keynotes, Consulting and Courses

Courses

Collaborative Creativity & Design Thinking for Innovation Graduate Program – Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.

Collaborative creativity is an educational imperative in 21st
century education as it is essential to equip educators and learners
with the capacities to innovate to adapt to perpetual change and to
affect positive perpetual change. Truly collaborative cultures enhance
innovative potentials exponentially by enabling the free flow of ideas
in truly trusting and caring, inventive environments. A central feature
of this program is continual collaborative engagement in contextual
creative problem solving through design thinking and design practice.
This is supported against a backdrop of research into the fields of
creativity, design, innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Collaborative Creativity & Design Thinking for Innovation
program is designed for educators from early childhood to post-secondary
levels, and professionals from across the discipline spectrum to
develop comprehensive, design thinking and design practice tactics and
strategies to affect positive, innovative change across a wide range of
real world contexts. This is accomplished through the establishment of a
collaborative culture for creativity that is carried throughout the
program to support the design work of all participants. Each program
participant will be engaging in a highly supportive and interactive
online community of collaboration and creativity throughout the program
to support the growth and development of their own work as well as the
work of others in the cohort. Some of these design contexts include
educational and social innovation, human-centred design and
entrepreneurship as well as the personal professional practice of each
participant.

The Collaborative Creativity & Design Thinking for Innovation
program, with its combination of face to face courses in the summer
followed by online courses in the fall and winter, is highly accessible
for those from diverse geographic locations and diverse professional
backgrounds wishing to engage in a truly collaborative, transformative
experience. This program is for those wishing to become positive agents
of change through the development of the capacities for innovation in a
variety of real world applications through collaborative creativity and
design practice.

Building a whale is really an exercise in total teamwork. Learn more about collaborative creativity in the link below from the 2017 version of this program.

Keynotes & Presentations

Robert Kelly is well known as a featured keynote speaker on the topic of creativity in educational practice featuring his new research and insightful ideas on creativity in education, and humourous anecdotes that are mined from his diverse personal journey. His motivational and highly energetic presentations have inspired many to develop their own creative potential across the discipline spectrum and to transform organizations. He has presented to a broad range of educational and private organizations nationally and internationally. Presentation topics include (but are not limited to):